Phyton

[LukeVassallo]

Hi guys,

I hope I am posting in the right section, because this is my first post here. I am running a raspberry pi with Arch Linux 3.10.25-1. I want to install phyton but I have no idea how. I looked a bit around on the internet but I didn't find a guide to do this. Any tips would be great.

Cheers

[natlampen]

You are talking about python? And as far as i recall it is preinstalled, if not you can install it using

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sudo pacman -Sy python

[LukeVassallo]

when I ran that code I got this:

-bash: sudo: command not found

I even tried running it logged in as root, but the sudo basically give you root privileges right ?

[jamesh]

Why are you using Arch? It seems from your posts that Raspbian may be a better bet.

[paddyg]

Hi

Have you set up Arch as per the instructions here http://elinux.org/ArchLinux_Install_Guide
If you log on as root then you don't need to use sudo but if you have created a general purpose user you need to install sudo before you can use it. There were one or two bothersome things when I did it following these instructions, unfortunately I can't remember what they were. I put some instructions here http://pi3d.github.io/html/FAQ.html near the bottom where I talk about setting up with Arch (and I explains how to load various other packages as well.)

[paddyg]

@jamesh, what happened to the 'slim raspbian' project. If there was an option to download raspbian without the rubbish I'm sure it would get lots of takers. We're getting to the stage where the standard specification will be a 16GB card and four hours to download and burn it.

[Aydan]

@jamesh, what happened to the 'slim raspbian' project. If there was an option to download raspbian without the rubbish I'm sure it would get lots of takers. We're getting to the stage where the standard specification will be a 16GB card and four hours to download and burn it.

I don't know what you're talking about. The naked Raspbian Image is about 2GB and runs off a 4GB card.

[paddyg]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... an#p518332
(which actually answers my question, though there could be an officialisation of that)

Well, at risk of confusing the OP by diverting his thread (though it slightly relevant).. There are lots of occasions where someone intends to use the raspberry pi for a specific purpose: a robot brain, flight simulator, greenhouse monitor, twitter server, etc etc so these are the people who might use Arch, it's much faster to boot and an compressed SD image is a reasonable size to make available for other people to download.